Just a little trick to help save your console/tranny cover.....
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Just a little trick to help save your console/tranny cover.....
I installed the Redline leather consol/tranny overlay today...in doing so i figured i would fix the common problem of the plastic tranny cover cracking/breaking, due to the weight we put on it when we lean on it to get in the car.
If you look underneath the cover, there are two plastic supports. These supports are located closer to the back of the cover, but there is nothing closer to the front where we tend to lean more.
I had an extra tranny cover laying around, so I broke off the supports from that one, and glued then onto mine. You can use anything you might have laying around, as long as its sturdy.
The cover now has a lot more of a solid feel in the area where it meets the shifter plastics. You dont have to have your whole dash apart ither to do this, the tranny cover comes of very easy once you have the shifter console out.
Something little...but keeps you from swearing at yourself evertime youy lean on it
shawn
If you look underneath the cover, there are two plastic supports. These supports are located closer to the back of the cover, but there is nothing closer to the front where we tend to lean more.
I had an extra tranny cover laying around, so I broke off the supports from that one, and glued then onto mine. You can use anything you might have laying around, as long as its sturdy.
The cover now has a lot more of a solid feel in the area where it meets the shifter plastics. You dont have to have your whole dash apart ither to do this, the tranny cover comes of very easy once you have the shifter console out.
Something little...but keeps you from swearing at yourself evertime youy lean on it
shawn
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I have my wide band in that space... but I basically brief everyone that sits in my passenger seat... don't pull on the door handle there... pull it closed there... don't put weight on this... don't do this... don't do that. I'm really thinking about doing what gordon did to strengthen the interior.
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I have my wide band in that space... but I basically brief everyone that sits in my passenger seat... don't pull on the door handle there... pull it closed there... don't put weight on this... don't do this... don't do that. I'm really thinking about doing what gordon did to strengthen the interior.
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It's damned pathetic that you can't even touch these cars without fear of something breaking. "DON'T TOUCH that door handle! It just looks like a handle, you aren't really supposed to use it as one..." LAME...just ******* lame.
Yeah, everything's designed to be light weight. Blah blah. There are a million places on the FD where they could have saved money by removing actual metal. But they thought it was a better idea to make the all the plastic screw bosses in the interior just strong enough to last until the first guy tries to take something apart. It's inexcusable. Meanwhile other Mazda cars from the same era have quite durable interiors without any of these problems. The FD interior team was a bunch of dopes.
Yeah, everything's designed to be light weight. Blah blah. There are a million places on the FD where they could have saved money by removing actual metal. But they thought it was a better idea to make the all the plastic screw bosses in the interior just strong enough to last until the first guy tries to take something apart. It's inexcusable. Meanwhile other Mazda cars from the same era have quite durable interiors without any of these problems. The FD interior team was a bunch of dopes.
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with mine i did do it different though....I pulled off the old vinyl instead of glueing the leather over top of it. I wasnt sure if it would be to thick with them both on there, possibly making the center shifter plastic not sit right.
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I dont think you need to get too creative, know one will see it. you just need a little extra support, but what ever you feel like using is fine to stop the cracking.
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This is a great idea. I hate having to be so cautious of the center console and I cringe whenever I accidentally put an arm on it.
I don't have an extra cover to cut the little pegs off of, but I feel like I might have seen something similar when strolling through Home Depot or Lowes. Maybe a plastic spacer of some sort or even a small diameter pvc pipe could possibly work.
Just tossing some ideas out there...
I don't have an extra cover to cut the little pegs off of, but I feel like I might have seen something similar when strolling through Home Depot or Lowes. Maybe a plastic spacer of some sort or even a small diameter pvc pipe could possibly work.
Just tossing some ideas out there...
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I don't have an extra cover to cut the little pegs off of, but I feel like I might have seen something similar when strolling through Home Depot or Lowes. Maybe a plastic spacer of some sort or even a small diameter pvc pipe could possibly work.
Just tossing some ideas out there...
Just tossing some ideas out there...
If the vinyl has not ripped yet, you can still get in there and fix it. Take the cover off and Just spread some glue where the plastic is cracked. Then go out and grab some PVC as mentioned or whatever you think might work.
These can be placed anywhere you think it may help, you dont have to put the supports exactly where i did. If you feel you need support in another area, throw them in there also.
cheers
shawn
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